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The age of AI feels well and truly upon us, whether we like it or not (we don’t), so it isn’t a surprise that more outlets are paying attention to the technology. Advocates for the technology have been shouting that it was the inevitable future for years now. Following the news that one of the most popular manga on the popular Comic C’moA platform in Japan was AI-generated, one Mob Psycho 100 and The World Only God Knows editor and manga industry professional wondered if the age of AI-generated manga was already here.

My Dear Wife, Will You Be My Lover? (Note: This is an unofficial translation of the manga's title, which hasn't been officially translated for English-speaking audiences yet) is a fairly run-of-the-mill adult romance manga about a husband and wife trying to rekindle the lost spark in their marriage. It was released in late December 2025 and has become the most popular manga on Comic C’moA, one of the largest e-book stores in Japan. While many fans posted reviews decrying the art and writing as one-dimensional or inconsistent, Kazuaki Ishibashi, a manga author and editor who has worked on both the Mob Psycho 100 and The World Only God Knows manga, pointed out that few people seemed to care that the series was AI-generated.

“The reviews aren’t particularly heated either, and readers don’t seem to care whether the artist is AI or not,” he said in a social media post weighing in on the controversy. “Perhaps it’s only the creators themselves who are concerned. Has this era finally arrived? I expect it will explode in popularity this year.”

We can’t speak to how the manga industry as a whole is going to adapt to the introduction of AI-generated comics, but we do know that many of the people who translate manga into English seem dead-set against it. One even called it the “enshittification” of the industry when we spoke to them last year, referencing Cory Doctrow's term for the degeneration of the internet. 

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